Unless Israel decides to use nuclear weapons there is no way for them to do much other than slightly delay the Iranians.

Just looking at open source information on the IAEA website and on globalsecurity.org, I was able to confirm that there may be up to 25 nuclear weapon infrastructure sites that would need targeting in Iran. And that is just from open sources. There could be of course more sites than this not in the public domain that the Mossad/CIA may already be aware of.

Six to eight sites are allegedly involved in uranium/plutonium enrichment activities. Four of these sites are apparently hardened underground bunker type facilities. The Iranians appear to be hedging their bets by using gaseous diffusion/centrifuge approaches for enrichment along with calutrons and plutonium seperation. The centrifuge approach is the most effecient but the other approaches are much more low tech and easier to disguise. One would have to take all the way out these sites in order to knock the Iranian bomb project for a loop.

Three Dolphin subs, 40 odd F-15’s and some of those new F-16s they have would not be enough to completely flatten these facilities to the point where the program would be dealt a death blow the way the Osirak operation did to Iraq.

And going nuclear would be a gamble of the highest order. Who is to say that Pakistan for example would not use the “Islamic Bomb” and retaliate against Israel? Perhaps the Americans or Russians may intervene to try and “take out” the Israeli nukes conventionally in order to prevent some sort of craxy escalation?

I could see Israel using their nukes if they were only in the most imminent of threats. Iran is not there….. yet at least.

I am not sure about the size of the strike package, but Pakistan is unlikely to use its Nukes for Iran, Saudi Arabia is an exception, I dont think anyone would be attacking Saudi Arabia with Nukes anytime soon.

Mr A Q Khan helped Iran as much as he could without giving them a working bomb. I guess the current Iranian programme is very much an A Q Khan ideology. He thought muslim countries are being attacked left right and centre, let some of them have nukes to make imperialist powers think twice.

Pakistan wont want to share its position, as being the only muslim nuclear power.

If stars align properly,Israel and India could be great friends…other than the 14-15 percent Muslims,the rest of the population in India has no animosity towards Israel.In fact a poll recently put India as the country most favorable to Israel with over 58% people having a positive opinion even over the US with 56%. Plus as India is developing the country is moving increasingly towards right wing Hindu nationalism.

India will never be able to replace the current position enjoyed by US. It might be a good friend to Israel, but will it put itself on the line like US?

Nuclear Iran is a reality, we can slow them down but can not stop them from starting again. We cant even do an Iraq on them.

To prepare/weaken Iraq for Gulf War 2, It took draconian sanctions and frequent air raids over 10 years. Do we have the time to do that to Iran? let alone afford another full scale war?

Not a clever idea as long the West is not willing to force secure borders for Israel in the true sense.
None is against Iranian reactors for peaceful purposes. None of Irans neighbors are capable to challenge the being of Iran as a country and by that to justify atomic weapons as last defence option. 😉

Where as the tiny and weak states of Russia and USA need thousands of nuclear weapons to gurantee their existence?

Osama bin Laden was a Saudi citizen f.e. and most of his followers from other countries too. By the way the Taliban were sponsored by the CIA before the control were lost and Pakistan was the main supporter of the Taliban ruling Afghanistan. Maybe some people in the former US Administration were not too eager to look into the related details before.

Completely wrong. US never supported Taliban, except the time they had few Taliban ‘officals’ in Texas to discuss the Unocal pipeline. US was very friendly with the Arab mujahideen, who became Al Qaeda.

I think the problem is most people dont understand that Taliban and Al Qaeda are completely different, with different command structures and goals. Al Qaeda is more global focused where as Traditionally Taliban only care about AF-PAk region.

Ashbeater 2000.

http://www.ihpva.org/air.htm

You don’t think it would be easier for a suicide bomber to walk through the terminal doors???

The last time I took a flight , I had to go through half a dozen checks before getting near the aircraft.

We know what a suicide bomber can do to a fully fueled aircraft, look at what happened in Colombo few years ago, it was lucky those planes were not full of passengers at that time.

If NK ever lost their posture to defend their leader, could SK fly an airborne component in and commando raid the palace? I wonder how far the NK military has to slide before SK could pull a capitulation strike on him with airborne troops in boots. You take out the leadership in the palace and I think the war between NK/SK is for the better part over. Sure, the NK military might begin action on their own, but how realistic can they do so? Would be an interesting end to a sad SK-NK split. Then again the Chinese would probably send in an airborne force to institute a new leader within 24 hours.

With thousands of artillery pieces facing Seoul, I doubt South will be in any hurry to launch any strikes against the North. Its a India Pakistan scenario, but here MAD is acheived with South’s conventional weapons against North’s outdated forces + one or two nukes.

All they will do is to be a bit more agressive in defending thier territorial waters/airspace from any future violations.

What proof? There was no proof, now several newspaper articles assembled to the book and its become a proof?

“Apartheid” is a new trend in arabs accusation of Israel. This word sounds ecpecially funny from arab Parlament Members or from one of the tens of southands arab students from Israel universities, while Israelis not allowed not only live in Palestinian authority, but even to enter it. Now arabs want to find as many connections between words “apartheid” and “Israel”, thats all the blurb about this “book”.

I dont want to turn this thread into a middle east political argument. But to answer you, last time I checked, there were around half a million Israelis illegally living in Palestininan terretories. So your argument that Israelis some how respect the Palestinian areas is fundamentally wrong.

Apartheid, is not only according to this book alone. UN has been saying this about Gaza in every other report.

Its not easy to fool the world, in this 24hr news channel era.